how DO FLAMINGO'S GET THEIR PINK COLORING?

Answer 1

Their food...

Answer 2

Feathers: The flamingo's bright pink color is due to its diet. The carotene from the shrimp or other shrimp-like crustaceans in its diet turns its feathers pink. If the diet is low in carotene, the feathers become white.

Answer 3

hi! Flamingos get that beautiful pink color from the food they eat!
~Flamingos feed on tiny brines flies, shrimps and mollusks.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-flamingo.html

On this link below, scroll down until you come to the DIET section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingos

Answer 4

From eating pink Peeps

Answer 5

Their pink or reddish color comes from the rich sources of carotenoid pigments (like the pigments of carrots) in the algae and small crustaceans that the birds eat
There is a link to if you'd like to learn more.

Answer 6

from the food they eat cause it has a lot of red coloring in it and it turns their feathers pink after a while......they are born white

Answer 7

shrimp..... they paint all the newborn flamingos so they will be pretty; little shrimp fly from the water to do this...god nature is beautiful....hehehe they eat them

Answer 8

They get their pink coloring from all the pink shellfish or you can call it shrimp that they eat?

Answer 9

it comes from the food they eat..A flamingo's pink or reddish feather color comes from its diet, which is high in alpha and beta-carotene

Answer 10

the pigment in the shrimp they eat, causes them to turn pink, when they are born, they are not pink.

Answer 11

Brine shrimp if not enuff of them they tend to turn white.